Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.

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The allopathic doctor, dressed in red, tramples on a book while the homoeopath tramples on pills and medicine bottles. The former is fatter than the homoeopath, but the latter is more dandified

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

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Der Aerzte-Krieg des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ... Lettering continues: Wie sich in Kräehwikel die Doctores streiten/ Ob der Patient von seinen Leiden/ Durch Allo- oder Homöopathey/ Am besten zu erlösen sey. // Und wie sich der Allo- und der Homöopath/ Endlich ausgestritten hat/ Ist der Patient in Frieden/ Sauft und selig verschieden. [Lettering on box under right-hand man's arm:] Homöopathische Apotheke

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See Wellcome Library no. 16872i for a more detailed version of this print

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Wellcome Collection 17855i

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